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Acts 26 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:1 - And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:2 - 'Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:3 - especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:4 - 'The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:5 - knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:6 - and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:7 - to which our twelve tribes, intently night and day serving, do hope to come, concerning which hope I am accused, king Agrippa, by the Jews;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:8 - why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:9 - 'I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:10 - which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:11 - and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.
(Act 9:1–19; 22:6–16 )
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:12 - 'In which things, also, going on to Damascus -- with authority and commission from the chief priests --
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:13 - at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light -- and those going on with me;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:14 - and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick!
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:15 - 'And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:16 - but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:17 - delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:18 - to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:19 - 'Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:21 - because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill me.
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:22 - 'Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:23 - that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:24 - And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, 'Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:25 - and he saith, 'I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:26 - for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner;
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:27 - thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:28 - And Agrippa said unto Paul, 'In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:29 - and Paul said, 'I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:30 - And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:31 - and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- 'This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'
Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:32 - and Agrippa said to Festus, 'This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'
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